Église Saint-Martin de Sousceyrac, Medieval church in Sousceyrac-en-Quercy, France

Saint-Martin Church stands in Sousceyrac-en-Quercy, built of light tan stone blocks with a steep dark grey pitched roof. Tall pointed windows with dark tracery sit between flat vertical buttresses along the side wall, and a lower side chapel with its own pitched roof projects from it. A square tower rises at one end, carrying arched openings, a clock face and a tall grey stone spire topped by a small cross. Inside, pointed stone vaulting rests on ribs and columns above a nave of rough light-grey blocks, with three tall pointed stained-glass windows above the light stone altar.

The present church replaced an earlier one built after the Wars of Religion, which kept reused Romanesque pieces such as a mid-12th-century capital still set in a wall near the Saint-Antoine door. Its vault had collapsed during the Hundred Years' War. The choir and first nave bay were built in 1864-1865 on land bought by Abbé Ladoux, on foundations dug four metres into the old town ditch; the two chapels followed in 1876, the last nave bay and tower in 1896-1900, and the church was consecrated on 28 May 1914 by Bishop Pierre-Célestin Cézerac of Cahors.

The church is dedicated to Martin of Tours, a dedication that points to the parish's early origins. In 1913–1914 the walls of the nave were scraped and plastered and the stained-glass windows repaired, work funded by a subscription of 4,800 francs. The building was consecrated on 28 May 1914 by Pierre-Célestin Cézerac, bishop of Cahors.

The church stands within the old fortified town enclosure, and its choir was built on the former town ditch, so the ground drops away on that side. The 1864 works required digging four metres through the old fossé to reach solid ground. Enter from the street side; the nave and the two 1876 chapels are on the level of the village centre.

During construction between 1864 and 1897, workers encountered serious difficulties laying stable foundations, a challenge recorded in documents from the town mayor of that era. These obstacles reveal how technically demanding the project was for its time.